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January 6, 2014 Issue

Cover Story

The “anonymous” restaurant critic is a concept that’s long
outlived its relevance, says Adam Platt—while exposing his identity on
our cover. He’s also provided his annual list of the best
places to indulge oneself, whether with high-art old-fashioned French
or the not-so-humble taco. Plus: the best new chefs, and
those trends that should go the way of the dodo. By Adam PlattOn the Cover:
Adam Platt with
blue shrimp (New Caledonia) sushi, prepared by Daisuke Nakazawa of
Sushi Nakazawa. Photograph by
Bobby Doherty/
New York Magazine. Download the iPad edition for an exclusive video tour of the WTC site, bonus excerpts from the A-Rod e-mails and John Ridley's 12 Years a Slave script, a sample from
Beyoncé’s Ghost video, an ice-skating lesson from pro skater Marni Halasa, and more.

Features

Bill de Blasio won his mayoralty by focusing on the city’s
ever-widening divide between the super-wealthy
and the epically struggling. But it’s the people in between whose
lives might be improved fastest, by following a few
(only moderately) radical proposals. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

In 1997, an 8-year-old Chaneya Kelly reported that she had been
raped by her father, Daryl Kelly, sending him to prison for
up to 40 years. For the last sixteen years, she’s wanted more than
anything to take that testimony back. By Jennifer Gonnerman